KRnetHeads, It's been kinda quiet so I thought I'd throw this out there. My progress has slowed somewhat, but I've still managed 21 hours a week on average for the last few weeks, so Jeff Scott was right when he said the pace picks up toward the end.
I just finished remounting my seat belts. I had to send them back to Hooker to have the proper ends put on them. I asked for 45 degrees, but got 30's since they were out of 45's, so I redesigned the mounts and had them replace them with straight attachment points, which worked out better anyway. I've "final sanded" one wing and the flap and aileron that go along with it, and applied the final coat of primer that I'm going to fly it with. I still have one more to go though. They are rougher than you might think. I've had to modify the rudder cables too. Previously, the cables went from the pedals to a turnbuckle about half way back to the rudder, and then a cable that went on from there to the rudder. I was going to just swage the tailwheel cables straight to the rudder cable, with no springs but a little slack, as Troy is flying. He swears by it, saying you need all the tailwheel control you can get. Well, when I swaged the first one the tailwheel had moved, so I accidently locked in about 15 degrees of difference between tailwheel and rudder. So I cut it out and did it right, with an added pair of turnbuckles for the tailwheel cables sprouting from the original turnbuckles. I'm still not entirely done with it, but the end result will be that I will be able to adjust them perfectly in line, or maybe dial end some bias between them if it turns out I need it (for the transition between tail down and tail up). I'll document it when I'm done, but I like the way it's going to work. I got my Repairman Certificate from the FAA today too. Life is good... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
